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Patented Feb. 12. 1884.

D. P. BAXTER. BUTTON OR STUD PAS-TENER.

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DUKE F. BAXTER, OF ROOHESIElEt, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH NIT-ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TO FRANCES A. BAXTER, or SAMEPLAOE.

,BUTTON 0R STUD FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,301, dated February 12, 1884. Application filed November 26. 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DUKE F. BAXTER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Rochester, Monroe. county, State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Button and Stud Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of buttons, studs, clasps, &c., in which a threaded stem passed through a fabric is the means of securing thereto a button, stud, or other at tachment; and my invention consists in constructing the attachment, as fully described hereinafter, so that the stem may be easily passed through the fabric without injury to the latter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view, enlarged, showing my attachment as applied to securing a button to a fabric. Fig. 2 is an external View of a modification. Fig. 3 is a plan of the stem. Fig. 4 is a section showing the attachment as used in securing the ornamental pendant of a leather or heavy fabric hanging.

Heretofore ithas been common to make studs in two parts, one being the button, and the.

other a headed screw-pin passing through the fabric into the button. It is not practicable to force the threaded stems of such attachments directly through heavy fabrics, and itiscommon to perforate the latter with a piercer, or to use a hollow-ended needle to facilitate the introduction of the stem. To avoid the use of these secondary appliances, which tear the stem, Fig. 1 showing a termination with two threads, and Fig. 2 a termination with a single thread.

A stem having a tapering point may be passed through the fabric without the use of piercers or needles; but has more or less tendency to separate and tear the finer fibers. If,

however, the tapering point has a quick screwthread, or a thread having a comparatively large pitch, it will enter the fabric freely and without injury thereto, so that the position of a stud or button may be repeatedly changed within a limited space without injury to the fabric. The reason of this will be apparent upon inspecting Fig. 3, from which it will be seen that the cross-sectional dimensions of a threaded stem are much less than of a solid one, thereby lessening the spread of the fibers where the penetration occurs. the passage of the-screw-stem into the fabric, I provide said stem'with a head having projecting arms i, whereby it may be readily turned.

Without limiting myself to any special form of stud or button, I claim 1. A detachable stud consisting of a head having a threaded opening and a stem ha ling a threaded body terminating at one end in a To facilitatehead and at the other in a tapering gimlet- 7 scribing witnesses.

DUKE F. BAXTER;

W'itnesses:

H. A. HALL, J. H. STEWARD. 

